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Reynoldston Camp
Swansea, Wales · Atlas WA1554
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1554 (1554)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Swansea
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Reynoldston
- National Grid reference
- SS48348991
- Latitude
- 51.58753
- Longitude
- -4.19061
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1879); Other (1966); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM195
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00161w
- National record
- record SS 48 NE; monument 94607
- Wikidata
- Q31055391
Sources
References
- Gerrard, C., Wiggins, H., and Evans, E. 2006. Prehistoric defended enclosures in Glamorgan with recommendations for fieldwork: Year 3 Report, GGAT Report No 2006/089, Project No GGAT78, Swansea: GGAT.
- RCAHMW 1976. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Glamorgan, 1.2, Pre-Norman, Parts I-III, 644, Cardiff: HMSO.